Hah yeah I understand. But it's also where I'm not agreeing with you on a more "political" level.

I see the lemmyverse (or basically the internet, I'm old) as a way of sharing information, not as a way of earning money.

For me you'd donate to make a sub, a community or an instance staying alive, not for 'content creation'. You're helping a space where people exchange whatever they do. I'm maybe wrong here but I feel that if content creators will earn money, it's the open bar for publicity, doom scrolling algorithms and everything else we've seen the last ten years.

I love some of the "free" stuff on the internet, like I re-read Girl Genius and I'll probably buy more stuff from them because they are so awesome (science & romance!).

So I'm up for debate ofc.